Thank you for your contributions and for telling schools and libraries about our Game Changer Program which provides grants of chess club starter kits and support!
Together, we have helped 95 NC schools and community organizations in 41 NC counties start chess clubs and experience the benefits of chess! We have also helped one school in Virginia and another in Louisiana start chess clubs when leaders of our clubs moved there.
We are very close to reaching the original goal we set in 2019 of helping NC schools and community organizations start 100 chess clubs.
Thank you also to Chess in the Schools for recognizing us with the inaugural Andy Lerner Award for Excellence in Chess Education. This award enables us to support more chess programs, and the publicity around the award is helping us reach more schools and libraries!
During the past year, we supported new school clubs on Cape Hatteras, new library clubs in several mountain counties, our first senior center chess program, and a chess club at a Boys & Girls Club. One of our school clubs made the local news. Through our Aditya Dias Memorial Fund we also supported the NC and SC K-12 Championships.
If you would like to start a chess club at your NC school, library, or community organization, please apply for one of our grants. This year we will continue to provide chess sets, instructor guides and workbooks, and ChessKid accounts to help organizations establish chess clubs. We will also organize weekly ChessKid tournaments and other events to enable students from these clubs to play each other.
We have also received more donations of gently used chess books which we continue to provide to NC libraries with chess clubs.
Thank you, again, for your support!
Indermaur Chess Foundation 